{"id":98216,"date":"2020-01-24T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98216"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T23:24:43","slug":"allahabad-hc-upholds-ban-on-loudspeakers-in-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/24\/allahabad-hc-upholds-ban-on-loudspeakers-in-mosques\/","title":{"rendered":"Allahabad HC upholds ban on loudspeakers in mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy: Outlook India<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

23 JANUARY 2020<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/newsscroll\/allahabad-hc-upholds-ban-on-loudspeakers-in-mosques\/1715334<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayagraj, Jan 23 (IANS) The Allahabad\nHigh Court has refused to quash an administrative order that banned the use of\nloudspeakers for ”azaan” at two mosques in Baddopur and Shahganj villages of\nJaunpur district in Uttara Pradesh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court in its order on Wednesday\nstated that no religion advocates the use of loudspeakers for worship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No religion prescribes that\nprayers are required to be performed through voice amplifiers or by beating of\ndrums… If there is such a practice, it should not adversely affect rights of\nthe others, including that of not being disturbed,” said the division\nbench of Justice Pankaj Mittal and Justice V.C. Dixit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court dismissed the petition filed\nby one Masroor Ahmad and a fellow resident of Jaunpur.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court cited a similar 2000 Supreme\nCourt judgment — Church of God (Full Gospel) vs KKR Majestic Colony Welfare\nAssociation — where the apex court said that freedom to practice religion was\nsubject to public order, morality and health.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The division bench also dismissed the\npetitioners” argument that using loudspeakers to call people to join in the\n”namaaz” at specific times was an essential part of their religion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The fundamental right to religious\nfreedom under Article 25(1) of the Constitution is not absolute. It is subject\nto Article 19(1)(a) (freedom of speech and expression), and thus both of them\nhave to be read together,” the court pointed out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The petitioners had submitted an\napplication in March last year, seeking permission to use loudspeakers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The circle officer of Shahganj had also\nsaid in his report submitted to the court that the areas in which these two\nmosques were located had a mixed population of Hindus and Muslims and allowing\nthe use of amplifiers could lead to a law and order problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

–IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courtesy: Outlook India<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy: Outlook India 23 JANUARY 2020  https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/newsscroll\/allahabad-hc-upholds-ban-on-loudspeakers-in-mosques\/1715334 Prayagraj, Jan 23 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash an administrative order that banned the use of loudspeakers for ”azaan” at two mosques in Baddopur and Shahganj villages of Jaunpur district in Uttara Pradesh. The court in its order on Wednesday stated that no religion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}